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  "path": "/2026/06/08/women-jail-prison-abuse-domestic-violence-tanisha-williams/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-08T18:41:25.000Z",
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  "textContent": "When I first began reporting on incarcerated women, I was fascinated by studies that showed that showed that upwards of 70 percent of women in jails and prisons were subjected to intimate partner violence before they were incarcerated.\n\nBut as I covered more stories on the topic, I started to see that, more disturbingly, many women I interviewed had been incarcerated because they responded to violence perpetuated against them.\n\nAgain and again in my research, I came upon cases in which a woman claimed that she had acted in self-defense, or had followed orders from an abuser because she didn't want to die, or had protected a loved one — and she was subsequently charged with murder, convicted, and locked away, sometimes for life. This is the little-known phenomenon termed \"criminalized survival.\" I wanted to understand how common it was.\n\nThe post When Survival Becomes a Crime: The Women Punished for Escaping Abuse appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
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